Immigration Bill: New cross-party offensive for regularization

As consideration of the immigration bill begins Monday, November 6, in the Senate, advocates for Section 3 of the law, which plans to regulate illegal workers in so-called shortage occupations, intend to put pressure on the government.

According to our information, a trans-party group of parliamentarians, from the Communist Party to Modem, through the EELV, the Socialist Party and the left wing of the Renaissance – but which does not include the LFI – will present the general amendments and their strategy on Monday morning. to defend this measure, which is vehemently opposed by the deputies and senators of the Republic of Latvia. An initiative that came two months after a column by about thirty of these parliamentarians published by Libération and Franceinfo, in which they had already demanded “urgent, humanistic and concrete measures for the regularization of undocumented workers.”

“The right is on a very strong offensive, using the worst arguments against Article 3. In the face of this, it is important to stick together to prevent the little progress made on this immigration bill from being sacrificed by the eventual debate in the Senate,” – admits the communist senator from Paris Jan Brossa, who will take part in the press conference together with the PS senator Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie, the EELV deputy Julien Baillou or, according to some elected officials, the Renaissance deputy Stella Dupont. On the other hand, the President of the Legal Commission, Sacha Houllier, will not be present at the meeting.

The amendment asks not to touch state medical care

The purpose of this press conference, organized in front of the National Assembly, in the Le Bourbon brasserie, in the same place where the small group worked on its platform: “To reaffirm our commitment to the legalization of illegal workers, which is a modest step forward in the bill, which is also very restrictive,” sums up the communist senator.

Among the amendments that may be introduced is the issue of the employer’s authority to grant regularization rights. “According to the Waltz Circular, which is in force today, the employer must give permission and sign the Cerfa form in order for the employee to request regularization,” emphasizes Jan Brossat. What we advocate is that we must ensure that undocumented workers no longer have to ask their employer for permission. The idea is to break out of these bonds of subjugation. “This is exactly one of the measures included in the government’s original bill.

The other amendment also asks not to sacrifice statewide medical assistance (or AME), which in the original text would have been converted to emergency medical care. This will “create the conditions for denial of medical care,” the transpartisan group condemns.